Ed Trissel, former chief communications officer of private equity firm Warburg Pincus, has rejoined New York-based financial PR agency Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher, where he will serve as partner.
Trissel joined Warburg Pincus in 2011, and led that firm’s communications team and strategy, and oversaw the firm’s service offerings to its global portfolio of companies. He was also a member of Warburg Pincus’s environmental, social and governance committee.
Prior to his time at WP, Trissel was stationed at Joele Frank, which he joined in 2007 and served that corporate communications and investor relations shop as managing director, focusing on communications for mergers and acquisitions, crisis and investor relations. Trissel was previously founder and principal at corporate and financial communications advisory Vistance Group, and also held senior roles at WPP unit Hill+Knowlton Strategies and Omnicom Group PR giant Ketchum.
Trissel will be based in Joele Frank's New York headquarters.
Brittney Basden, who led public affairs and advocacy partnerships at the Washington Post has joined Bully Pulpit International as a managing director.
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Michele Ziosi will rejoin Stellantis on Oct. 1 as chief PA officer responsible for Enlarged Europe and for the global coordination of the carmaker’s PA activities.
Inizio, which works with clients in the health and life sciences sectors, appoints Oisín Ó Gógáin as chief people officer... The Boston Beer Company names Allison Stransky CMO, effective Oct. 12. Stransky was previuosly VP and CMO at Samsung Electronics America... Newark Regional Business Partnership and its 501(c)(3) affiliate, the Renaissance Newark Foundation, bring on Kim Lewis-Collins as VP, marketing and business development, a newly created role. 
Carmichael Lynch president and manager Julie Batliner is joining Padilla as president, succeeding Matt Kuchariski. Kucharski will transition to a fractional role with the agency as an executive counselor through the end of the year.
